The Dancing Plague

This utterly original graphic novel tells the true story of when hundreds of a town's inhabitants were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance.

The Dancing Plague is a visually striking graphic work about the 1518 Strasbourg “dancing plague,” using embroidery and pyrography to turn medieval mass hysteria into something darkly beautiful and unsettling on the page. It shows how art can make even a half‑forgotten catastrophe feel immediate again.

The story is told from...